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Yes, we are a large part of the cause. But if I learned anything over the weekend, it is that we can also drive the solution. In the words of Dr Helen Szoke, “the mission that you sign up to when you become a doctor means that you have a responsibility to assist humanity climate change is a big part of that.” There needs to be a shift of focus from the negative outcomes of climate change, towards the positive ways we as doctors, we have an obligation to talk and act on climate change”. Photo credit Mack Lee Acknowledgements None Conflict of Interest None declared Correspondence isobelle.woodruff@amsa.org.au References iDEA17 delegates can address it. We need to stop seeing it as an issue and start seeing it as a potential for change and act in the infinite ways the speakers outlined at iDEA. While it is the biggest threat to our species and planet, climate change could also be “the greatest global health opportunity of the 21st century”.[8] The evening before the conference commenced, I was honored to hear from human rights lawyer Julian Burnside AO QC, who eloquently stated; “to remain silent is as much a political act as to speak out”. This simple idea is as applicable to climate change and human health as ever; the health impacts of climate change are direct and indirect, immediate and long term, both overt and subtle. We must have a global perspective on the issue, but also the willingness to act locally to create sustainable and tangible change to protect the health of our planet and our people. It is our responsibility as informed, ethically-minded health professionals to act now. In the words of Dr Stephen Parnis, ex- AMA Vice President “prevention and mitigation is always better than reaction and recovery – 1. Doctors for the Environment Australia. iDEA17 Conference DEA2017 [Available from: https://www.dea.org.au/ idea2017/. 2. The Lancet. A Commission on climate change. The Lancet. 2009;373(9676):1659. 3. Inheriting a sustainable world? Atlas on children’s health and the environment. Geneva: World Health Organisation, 2017. 4. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Food wastage footprint; impacts on natural resources (summary report). Natural Resources Management and Environment Department, United Nations, 2013. 5. Buckley T. IEEFA Update: China Is Now Three Years Past Coal. IEEFA, 2017 Feburary 28, 2017. Report No. 6. Tan JAMH. Economics: Manufacture renewables to build energy security. Nature. 2014;513(7517). 7. McMichael AJ. Globalization, Climate Change, and Human Health. The New England Journal of Medicine. 2013;386:1335-43. 8. Nick Watts et al. Health and climate change: policy responses to protect public health. The Lancet. 2015;386(10006):1861 - 914. 49
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